Word: garreau
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Corporations seeking relief from high big-city taxes also joined the rush, feeding the growth of hybrid suburb-cities like Virginia's Tysons Corner, Perimeter Center outside Atlanta, and the spanking new localities of the Route 128 corridor in Massachusetts. According to Joel Garreau, author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, by many standards of urban life these mostly low- rise population centers are already minicities. Most of the more than 200 suburban hybrids that he studied have more office space, shopping, entertainment, prestigious hotels, corporate headquarters -- even hospitals with high-tech CAT-scan machines -- than such conventional...
...Garreau's "edge cities" are very different from traditional suburbs that looked to the nearby city as their center. "They're not sub-anything," he says. "They are now the standard form of American urban life." As jobs and cultural attractions have moved out to such places, the people who live there have little reason to venture into old cities at all. "I never, ever go to the city," says Joan Schimansky, 43, a resident of the Miami suburb of Kendall. "There's not much down there for a family with two kids...